Data Analysis in a User Interface for Distributed Process Control

Abstract

IBIT is a user interface toolkit for distributed process control and manufacturing applications. It has been used to build a direct manipulation interface for a family of ion beam implanters. In the course of controlling production, a large volume of information can be collected for both online and offline analysis. The paper discusses extensions to the toolkit related to data collection and analysis. These extensions, which are currently under development, include a spreadsheet for event definition, icons for controlling charting, and visualization of the ion beam density. It relates these results to data analysis in manufacturing applications in general, and to facilities needed in workstations for experimentation